From: Larz <wbsurfver@...>
Date: 2009-01-09T01:09:49+09:00
Subject: Re: a good career choice ?

On Jan 7, 1:52 pm, Tim Greer <t...@burlyhost.com> wrote:
> Larz wrote:
> > Perl is old and provided much of the
> > inspiration for Ruby.
>
> In response to that, C and C++ are older than Perl and are always going
> to be around and popular (and well used), as is Perl.  Perl provided
> the inspiration for PHP (being embedding Perl code in a web page, is
> how PHP came about).  It is really hit and miss, some jobs might want
> you to know Ruby, or RoR, or C, or C++, or Java, or Perl, or VB, or
> Python, or something completely different.  I'm not saying you're
> suggesting "Perl is old, so it's not popular" or something, but I've
> seen people suggest that, which isn't the case.
> --

  There are some perl modules around that maybe do some things ruby
doesn't do, but Ruby is a dynamic language like Perl. C, C++ are
compiled and usefull for embedded dev and many other things ..

 There's always many jobs in older technology for a long time until it
fades away eventually the way of fortran etc. The efficiency factor
may be unsatisfactory ..